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Geddes 1848
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Chart, Sketch of the English Channel from the Bar up to Port Carlisle, in the Solway Firth, scale about 2 ins to 1 mile, by W Geddes, 1848.
(example map Carlisle Library (70))
map feature:- compass rose & up is N (NNWbyN) & scale line & sea plain & coast line & sandbanks & foreshore sands & lighthouses & sea marks & depth soundings & tidal flows
inscription:- printed lower right
A Rough Sketch / OF THE / ENGLISH CHANNEL, / FROM THE / BAR, UP TO PORT CARLISLE, / by / W. GEDDES, / Superintendant of Lights & Buoys, / FOR THE / CARLISLE CANAL COMPANY, / 7th. Novbr. / 1848.
wxh, sheet:- 100x67cm
wxh, map:- 963x625mm
inscription:- printed with scale line
Scale of One Mile
scale line:- 1 mile = 51.2 mm
scale:- 1 to 31000 ? (1 to 31432 from scale line)
sources:- Carlisle Library Maps

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   Carlisle Library : Map 91 -- chart -- Sketch of the English Channel from the Bar up to Port Carlisle